Friday, August 5, 2005, 1:06:52 PM, John wrote: JF> Irfanview has a batch mode that will make all sorts of adjustments, JF> including rotation, to a set of images. It's free, fast, and an excellent JF> image browser which will do straightforward editing in a fraction of the JF> time taken by heavyweight software like Photoshop.
JF> http://www.irfanview.com/ Hi John, IrfanView is just great for many things, but in my experience using it to rotate 1500-2000 _mixed_orientation_ photos is a bit pain in the arse. Because it doesn't have any option of tagging the photos. You would have to ctrl-click (or shift-click) _all_ the photographs of the same orientation, praying while at it that you don't accidentally mis-click discarding all the selected so far! Or perhaps I am just not nimble enough with the mouse ;-) Alas, I don't know what other program to suggest :-( Photomechanic is what most pros swear on, but it is expensive, best suited for the working photojournalist reviewing/captioning/selecting twenty photos to wire back from a two thousand shoot, and while rotation of many photos is really easy with it, hard jpeg rotation only works when resaving the photos for wiring/website/resize, lossless rotation of the originals is planned for the next version. Frantisek
